Advisory Council

Edith Cox
A native of South Caicos, Edith Cox is an accomplished businesswoman and Certified Public Accountant who currently resides in Providenciales. Ms Cox became a Certified Public Accountant in 1991, and has worked as an auditor with Coopers and Lybrand now PWC, Development and Industry. She currently serves as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Providenciales-based Graceway Trading, and Group Finance Director of the KH Capital Group. She is an executive member of the Chamber of Commerce and involved in various island charities.

Joseph P Connolly
Joseph Connolly is a qualified Chartered Accountant who has been practicing for 28 years. Amongst his various posts Mr Connoly was in charge of the Coopers & Lybrand Turks and Caicos office in 1983 and the first President of the Financial Industry Association and the Accountant Society. He is currently the Managing Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd. He was the former Treasurer of the TCI Football Association and the British West Indies Collegiate.

Theophilus Durham
Theophilus Durham was born and grew up in Grand Turk. Trained as a civil engineer, he is an Authorized Land Surveyor, and has been operating his own land surveying practice for more than twenty years. He is very active in the Bethany Baptist Church and the Chalk Sound community.

Eugene Otuonye
Queen's Counsel with 25 years of legal practice in the private and public sectors, Eugene Otuonye is a former Deputy Attorney General of the Turks and Caicos (2004/2005) and former Attorney General of Montserrat (Jan.2006- March 2008). He has been Chairman of the TCI Public Service Commission since July 2008. He is a member of various regional and international Bar Associations; Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.

Doreen Quelch-Missick-Stubbs RGN. BS. LL.B (Hons.), MBA
Doreen Quelch-Missick is an attorney at Law in the Turks and Caicos and Barrister at Law from England and Wales. An advocate of Womens and Childrens rights, she advises on domestic violence and provides mentoring for young people. She has been Chairman of the Turks and Caicos Human Rights Commission since June 2008.

John T Smith
John Smith is the Chief Executive Officer of the Turks and Caicos Islands Airports Authority with over 20 years’ international experience in the Aviation industry. An accomplished engineer and Chartered Manager who specialises in recovering troubled organizations, developing and implementing change. Since his return to the Islands Mr Smith has become the first chairman of the National Health Insurance plan and holds directorships on several other boards.

Picture: left to right Kingsley Been, Martin Stanley, Christine Shearer, Theophilus Durham, Dr. Carlton Mills (resigned), Eugene Otuonye, Former Deputy Governor Hon. Mahala Wynns, Former Gov. Gordon Wetherill, Former Attorney General DeFreitas, Joseph P Connolly, Doreen Quelch-Missick, John T Smith , Edith Cox & Bridgette Newman